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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Mike Moustakas smoked a double inside the right-field line, opening the flood gates. Nori Aoki slapped a single through the left side, Lorenzo Cain dropped a bloop hit into center and Eric Hosmer bounced a double over a drawn-in infield. By the time Billy Butler ended a half-hour rally with a gapper to the outfield wall, the party was well underway in front of 40,000 fans. And just like that, two innings into a game they had to win, the Kansas City Royals renewed their hopes of a first World Series title in 29 years. Seven hits keyed a relentless seven-run rally in the second inning on Tuesday night and the Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 10-0 to force a Game...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Mike Moustakas smoked a double inside the right-field line, opening the flood gates.
Nori Aoki slapped a single through the left side, Lorenzo Cain dropped a bloop hit into center and Eric Hosmer bounced a double over a drawn-in...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jake Peavy was cursing his luck after getting shellacked again in the Giants’ 10-0 loss to the Royals Tuesday in Game 6.
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While the Dodgers were adding one of those new-age, rock-star executives to their front office last week, naming Rays general manager Andrew Friedman their new president of baseball operations, the archrival Giants were busy winning their third pennant in...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If a movie is to be made of the incredible saga of the 2014 Royals, the role of Ned Yost would have to be played by an actor like Steve Carell, someone adept at playing a bumbling idiot.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — October provides a second chance for everyone fortunate enough to be on a playoff team.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The formula worked well for the Kansas City Royals all season: Get a lead late and let the bullpen hold it.
It worked to perfection Tuesday night.
Pinch runner Jarrod Dyson scored the go-ahead run in the sixth inning, and Kansas...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Any Royals player saying the American League Championship Series will not go back to Baltimore would have come as a surprise.
That the bold prediction came from Jarrod Dyson, someone few outside Kansas City have heard of, made it an...

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KANSAS CITY -- The wild card Kansas City Royals completed a startling playoff sweep of the top-seeded Los Angeles Angels on Sunday with an 8-3 win that set up an American League Championship Series against the Baltimore Orioles.The high-spirited Royals,...

The ball took a high arc and hung in the air long enough for Mike Moustakas to round first base and look. Would it clear the wall?
When it did, landing in the first row of right field at a stunned Angel Stadium, he threw his hand up in the air.
Of all...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Salvador Perez's single down the left field line capped a two-run, 12th-inning rally, and the Kansas City Royals stunned the Oakland Athletics 9-8 Tuesday in the American League wild-card game.
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The summary
Marcus Semien hit a two-run homer and sent a run home on a bases-loaded walk to give the White Sox an early lead against the Royals on Sunday afternoon at U.S. Cellular Field, but the Royals clawed back into the game for a 6-4 victory over...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Norichika Aoki's two-run triple in the fourth inning helped the Kansas City Royals pull a game closer to the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers with a 5-2 victory on Sunday.
The Royals salvaged the finale of this key three-game...

DETROIT -- J.D. Martinez and Rajai Davis hit home runs and Max Scherzer held the Kansas City Royals to one run in 6 2/3 innings Tuesday night in a 4-2 Detroit Tigers victory. The win was enough to pull the Tigers into a first-place tie with the Royals...

DETROIT -- Another thumping of a Cy Young Award winner completed the Kansas City Royals' rapid ascent from worst to first.
Alex Gordon and Mike Moustakas blasted two-run homers during a seven-run, second-inning outburst and the Royals took over first...

The summary
White Sox left-hander John Danks pitched six scoreless innings, but the Royals charged back to score two runs in the ninth to hand the Sox a 4-3 loss in the opener of a three-game series Monday at Kauffman Stadium.
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DETROIT -- Nick Castellanos hit a two-run double as part of a six-run third inning as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Kansas City Royals, 9-5, in the opener of a key three-game set.
Torii Hunter went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI, Victor...